Delhi’s car restrictions may not reduce pollution: Indian-American expert: The Business Standard

Posted onJanuary 12, 2016|Comments Off on Delhi’s car restrictions may not reduce pollution: Indian-American expert: The Business Standard

“The odd-even restrictions for cars being experimented with in New Delhi will not work to improve the national capital’s air quality due to its geographical location and the long-range airmass floating in from north and northwestern India, says an Indian origin US professor who has been analyzing satellite data.

The odd/even restriction will be of great help in reducing the traffic but wouldn’t do much to reduce concentrations of fine particles, Ramesh Singh, a professor at Chapman University in California, told IANS in an e-mail interview during an extended visit to Varanasi, from where he obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD degrees.